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Erie offering free tree limb drop-off today following major storm

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Posted:
08/04/2013 08:48:52 AM MDT

Updated:
08/04/2013 08:54:11 AM MDT

Erie's Department of Public Works today announced that, following Saturday's pounding storm, it will accept free drop-offs of brush and tree limbs at the Leon A. Wurl Service Center, 150 Bonnell Ave., until 3 p.m.

Town residents are advised to bring their broken tree limbs to the east entrance off Bonnell, where city staff will direct them to the appropriate drop-off spot. Residents are advised to use caution as heavy equipment will be in use in the area.

Saturday afternoon, a storm whipped through northern Colorado and into Boulder County, hitting Erie especially hard.

The town saw flooded roads, power outages, downed trees and blown transformers. An unoccupied semi trailer was blown over, and the still-under-construction Boulder Valley Velodrome cycling track near County Line Road and East Bonnell Avenue was partially flattened.

Tornado sirens went off in a number of Boulder County communities Saturday afternoon, but there were no funnel clouds spotted or confirmed in the area, sheriff's officials said.

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